Pinterest is awesome, but it can also drive me nuts!
On my Pinterest page you’ll find I have a Pinterest board for everything from outfits, hiking, travel, books, productivity, drinks, cooking, home decorating — there are so many possibilities. Pinterest has been a wonderful way to get inspired and exchange ideas across the internet once you get past the ugly fact that that dream wedding or bathroom you saw on Pinterest is a staged photoshoot. Also realize that the model wearing that outfit you were eye-ing is not a real person (unless you are 5’10 and 120 lbs). I tell myself these pins are only aspirations, not expectations.
Then there’s the other ugly part: Pinterest can also be a big mess. Some people may not anticipate projects require a bit of work and you willing to invest in some time. If you do not have those intentions when approaching a project, that’s when Pinterest fails come in. I’ve had my fair share of projects from Pinterest that got awful. I attempted yarn balls — the results were pretty good but it was a messy, messy project using A LOT of glue resulting in glue everywhere in my apartment. So I moved on. It was not the project for me.
However once in a while, I do find myself with pin wins:
A rose apple pie I make in the fall (the original). Yes, this is a dish I make regularly. I’ve done both fresh and baked apples and they come out wonderful. I am looking into other twists — maybe add berries or more crumbles just to twist things up.
A pinecone cheese ball (original). I made this last year for my work’s tree trimming party. The theme was pinecones and my coworker wanted to see someone make a dish like the original pin she saw. I took up on this challenge. I included the pine sprigs like in the original and I added my own touch for color by adding persimmon chips. I also baked the the persimmon chips too.
via Photo Challenge: Satisfaction
Weekly Photo Challenge Link Party!
A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I will remove the link!
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Satisfaction – Picks of my Pics
- Well-fed – What does Nelkumi Think?
- Winter Satisfaction – Letting Nature Back In
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Satisfaction – Fetching the World
- Memories in the Mist – Opal Reflections
- Weekly Photo Challenge: Satisfaction – Missionary IOU 差情尋
- The Great Divide, Peru – Jill’s Scene
- Wilderness – Pavement Stories
- Photo Challenge, Satisfaction: Watching the Seasons on Parade – Spirit in Politics
- Those Mountains… – More 2 Explore
- Sometimes it’s enough just to know – Writing on a Rock
- Perfection – Diamond
Eat, Play, Live 
What a delicious post Julie! The presentation is just beautiful. 🙂
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Oh boy, impressive and delicious!
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Thank you!
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Hi Julie,
I saw you tweeting about wordpress and I thought I’d check out your website. I really like it. Looks like Julie has come a long way!
Building a mailing list like you are is so important too, I think people would really like to be signed up to what you have to share.
Good job on the social buttons, social media is so powerful these days
You should consider installing an SEO plugin like Yoast or something, theres loads of good free ones.
Have you thought about using animated gifs to help market your website. If so, I’ve found something that you can use https://goo.gl/qGdynE
Keep making great stuff!
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